Asghar Assad

Asghar Assad was a member of the Syrian Air Force secret service. On 4 September 1981, Assad and Damir Ammar were driven to France's embassy in Beirut, Lebanon by Nawfal Saber to assassinate ambassador Louis Delamare to procure France's withdrawal from the country during the Lebanese Civil War, and Assad shot Delamare several times with a machine gun as Ammar shot him with a handgun. Both attackers proceeded to flee in Saber's car.